A Brief History of China Northwest Airlines retrieved the origin and final destination of each aircraft operated by China Northwest Airlines (1989 - 2003), and reassembled the enterprise's scattered archive into a parallel historical narrative. As a failed experiment in the privatization of state industries, the artist's archaeological study of Northwest Airlines shows how the country's airspace was opened by the force of government policy, and how the acceleration of the aerospace industry by capital brought it to today's "stall" position. The artist takes a previously state-owned industry as his specimen for forensic analysis of its brief, finite lifespan and the symbolic geographies that were obliterated in the course of its delirious flight.